Telescopes

Hamburger Sternwarte operates several optical and radio telescopes for research and teaching purposes. Only part of them are on site in Bergedorf, as they are the Oskar-Lühning telescope (OLT), the Kleines Radioteleskop (KRT3) and several smaller optical telescopes. The historic telescopes are used for public outreach.

North of Hamburg in Norderstedt a station of the radio LOFAR interferometer is located. The workhorses of optical observations are the TIGRE telescope in Guanajato/Mexico and the Planet Transit Survey Telescope (PTST) in Spain. All these telescopes are operated semi-automatically and are remotely controlled.